Burberry Womens Bikini In dark olive

French engineer named bikinis after bikinis Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests in July that year. The reasoning was that the burst of excitement created by it would be like a nuclear device. The monokini, a bikinis variant, is a back formation from bikinis, interpreting the first syllable as the Latin prefix bi- meaning "two" or "doubled", and substituting for it mono- meaning "one".Jacques Heim called his bikinis precursor the Atome, named for its size, and Louis R¨¦ard claimed to have "split the Atome" to make it smaller.